Nick Ravenscroft visited the derelict house near the mysterious Pendle Hill
Nick Ravenscroft visited the derelict house near the mysterious Pendle Hill
I'd like to know how it got covered up so recently, while leaving it in relatively good condition, with no local knowledge that it was there. It would have had to have been covered no earlier than the 19th Century, and I'd think there would have been some memory of the event passed down.
"Cos she looks like one!... BURN HER!!!"You educate me every day, SunkenCiv! Fascinating story!
My Nutter ancestors came from Lancashire, but poor Alice seems to be an unwanted addition to family trees as it is hard to find her connections. The reason may be that records from that area during the time period are sketchy. Many of the people who lived there were recusants, the Nutters among them, so church records (baptisms, marriages, deaths) are hard to come by. Purportedly some of the people who died by spells cast by the witches were also Nutters.
Alice was the most affluent of the group charged. Most likely she was innocent, accused by someone who wanted her property.
***The building contained a sealed room, with the bones of a cat bricked into the wall. ***
This is nothing new. Ancient buildings used to have children walled up alive in them for the same purpose.
A book written well over 100 years ago (THE EVIL EYE) explained much of these ancient superstitions.
Now look for a pig heart stuck with nails in the chimney.
I wonder if this guy Entwistle is related to the British guy Neil Entwistle who killed his wife and daughter in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and then fled back to Merry Old England a few years ago. See http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Neil_Entwistle,_suspect_in_murder_of_wife_and_child,_arrested_in_England
The witch was probably transplanted from Handel and Gristle land.
